Jodie Foster stars in Robert Zemeckis’ Contact, which opened 20 years ago today. All Images: Warner Bros. When Contact first opened, 20 years ago today, I thought it was a masterpiece. For a soon-to-be high school senior, Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation…
The all-new A8 sedan arrived in grand style, with the high-tech luxury limo making its world debut at the Audi Summit in Barcelona on Tuesday. The new A8, which will hit the market next year, marks the debut of the…
Photo by Elena Gurzhiy. This world must be a special kind of hell if just smelling food is enough to make you gain weight. The latest headlines on obesity research are saying just that—but smelling is probably only making “you”…
The Trump administration moved on Tuesday to prevent government agencies from using products developed by Kaspersky Labs, an elite Russian cybersecurity firm, Politico reported. The General Services Administration announced on Tuesday that it had removed Kaspersky from the list of…
The small star (artist’s depiction shown in reddish orange) is about the size of Jupiter, and slightly smaller than the ultracool dwarf Trappist-1 (shown in grey). (Image: A Boetticher et al., 2017) Astronomers at the University of Cambridge have discovered…
Today Igor Vasiliev (creator of FieldScaper and SoundScaper) brings us another synth specifically for experiments and soundscapes, and I’m betting that this is going to be just as interesting in terms of sound design as his other apps. Here’s what…
Image: Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission/ESA As expected, an iceberg half the size of Jamaica has finally cut itself loose from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf. Dubbed A68, the 2,240 square mile (5,800 square km) chunk of ice one of the biggest…
A year ago, MIT scientists unveiled a new technology that delivered a 3D movie experience in theaters without the need for cumbersome glasses. Now they’re working to bring that technology to your living room so that one day you can…
Auroras are one of the most beautiful and bewildering natural spectacles on Earth. But the view is even better from above. The faint green glow of auroras is caused by high-energy particles from the sun plowing through Earth’s atmosphere. Bands of…
Image: Getty With the meteoric rise in popularity of Ethereum, cryptocurrencies and blockchains are back in the news again. Graphics card prices have soared with the promise that those who have the computers and know-how to do some serious mining…